Rhetoric of enrollment and acts of resistance: Information technology as text

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

Volumn 110, Issue , 2003, Pages 225-248

  Wilson, Melanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Critical; Discourse; Power; Resistance; Social shaping; Standardization; Texts

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; STANDARDIZATION;

CRITICAL; DISCOURSE; POWER; SOCIAL SHAPING; TEXTS;

TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84904358552     PISSN: 18684238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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